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HOW DESIGN THINKING DIFFERENCIATES FROM BRAINSTORMING
Recently I had a conversation with a client who told me that somehow his team is not as creative as it should be. He told me that he wanted much more innovation in his team, but that in creative workshops with the employees, the same topics always came up and no new...
INFLUENTIAL LEADERSHIP – Old wine in new hoses or what is it about?
Influential Leadership has been a feature of my literature since about 2013, and I deliberately used the "Teufelshörnchen" (Devil's Squirrels) to answer this question in order to shed light on this topic from a cultural-critical perspective. In current leadership...
CASE STUDY: INFLUENTIAL LEADERSHIP
Influential leadership means that someone exerts a targeted influence on others, but does not use power or their own hierarchical position to do so. This can take place in an entrepreneurial environment where a leader may use this opportunity to make things happen....
INFLUENTIAL LEADERSHIP
You do not have to be the highest level person in the company to make a difference. In this issue of our newsletter we focus on one particular aspect of leadership - Influential Leadership. The question is: How can I exert influence without holding a "position of...
WORKHACKS. Six attacks on established workflows
Lydia Schültken sees the key for real change in the development of new, optimized routines, not in extensive change projects. Work Hacks are not given from "above" or conceived by a management consultancy, but are changed, tested and implemented, introduced by those...
CASE STUDY: Work Hacks
A few weeks ago I had a leadership training with executives. It was about finding ways and means to strengthen the team's ability to work together. The managers were asked to develop "small" interventions that could be implemented quickly on the one hand and bring...
WORK HACK: Agile Project Management
The term "agile project management" is an indication that there is a desire in a company for proven and established processes, but at the same time one would like to have the advantages of both methods. In the handling of projects proven traditional project management...
TRY AND ERROR INSTEAD OF RADICAL CHANGE
The term Work Hack is derived from "Life-Hack". "Life-hacks" are strategies to make everyday life easier. Work hacks are analogous strategies to make everyday work easier. It is about intelligent, simple methods to be more efficient and, if possible, more effective....
WORKING AGILE OR BEEING AGILE
" Do or be agile" - this difference has already been discussed several times. Mostly to emphasize that there can only be an effective form of agility if you not only establish agile processes, but are also agile. So it behaves like this and does not just follow new...
AIMING
Our world is fast moving, changes are no longer predictable. In our daily work, we constantly face the challenge of combining fast pace, complexity and quality. You might think it makes no sense to think about goals in these dynamic times. Circumstances change so...
GOALS IN AGILE CONTEXTS
"Plans are nothing; planning is everything". Dwight D. Eisenhower Setting goals is, besides aligning the company with a suitable strategy and creating efficient structures, one of the essential tasks of a company's management. This, or something similar, is what I...
CASE STUDY AIMING IN AGILE CONTEXTS
This case study describes the change of the classic release management process in a major Central European bank towards an agile approach with iterative development and cyclical delivery of new software. Initial situation In the past, the Bank's release management...
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